#3 Setting up your Development Environment
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Lucerne
07 March 2025
Computational Social Science (Lazer et al. 2009)
(see also Healy 2019)
automation of software installation
packages have dependencies
🤓 Publishing code and data are key to open science.
You don’t need it until you desperately need it!
👉 Follow the installation guide for your OS + the Python chapter.

Learn Python with interactive tutorials
Healy, Kieran. 2019. “The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science.” online.